The Vernacular of African Social Cultural Disciplines and It Influence on Modern Building Fabrics: A Case Study in Accra, Ghana

Abstract

Designing of a building is always for intended purposed, the housing of human beings should be specific to it task and should be enjoyed and provides needed comfort for the end user regardless of the surrounding circumstance. However environmental noise pollution is a problem affecting home users especially in developing country like Ghana. Ghanaians building industry is now in turned of foreign building design and it materials application without considering the socio culture implications. The traditional buildings in Ghana are basically one storey single family houses built with available local materials that is suitable for the clement and vernacular social cultural disciplines. Ghanaians general, built-up noise as a tool to exhibit powers unknown willing, these are observed on their daily social culture disciplines in worshiping, cooking, dancing, walking, talking and making fun. The new designs eventually put toll on the home users especially how to prepare fufu with traditional method wooden mortar, wooden pestle that lead contamination of fufu by mechanized method. The paper seek to concentrate on the courses of pounding fufu and it’s affiliated to activities in current modern buildings in Ghana. Special attention is paid on how traditional method could be used to prepare fufu in new buildings and it consequence to food contamination and the noise in the building.